Two AI 'robots' were linked together in a test to compete with each other.
Designed to work on the market exchanges, they quickly created their own language, that baffled the human 'overseers'. So they shut them down.
Stupid humans!

It's been a month since I posted this thread.
I find it telling that not one of our many computer users and experts
has posted an opinion, or given their expert diatribe.
I've clearly stated that we Humans are 'servers' to the machine,
slaves to the digital state.
We have no Humanity anymore in our labor or wisdom.
Our worth is measured in bits and bites, throughput and broadband.
The mass data, and metric extrapolation, that tells us what we desire and want and need.

"The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."